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#BlackLivesMatter

Lucas Vale Primary School has always been a warm and welcoming place; we believe it always will be. Three of our core values are tolerance, equality and respect – they are in our DNA. We are here for you, regardless of your race, sexuality, gender, religion or anything else which makes you, you.

Today and every other day, all of us at Lucas Vale as one with our black pupils, staff, parents and the entire BAME community in condemning racism. #BlackLivesMatter

Please see the government’s updated information for parents and carers via the link below which includes a section on keeping children safe online. It provides links to online resources that will help support you in keeping your children safe online.

As our children are all spending more time on phones and other electronic devices, it is really important that we keep them safe! Please remember to regularly check what your child is looking at online and talk to them about what to do if they see something that makes them feel uncomfortable.

School may be closed but we are still here to help you in anyway we can. Please email your child’s class teacher or call the school number if your situation has changed since we last spoke to you, or if you are in need of support.

If you are self-isolating and are unable to go to the shops, you can refer yourself for help from Lewisham Local Authority. Please use the link below to find out more:

A Message from our Head of School

I would like to take this opportunity to warmly welcome you to our website, where you can find information about our school and see our pupils’ learning.

At Lucas Vale Primary the safety of our pupils is our top most priority and therefore thorough check are done for any member of the public who comes into our school and any concerns are reported to the police.

Our vision is that every child will succeed. We are highly aspirational for all our pupils and we do whatever it takes to enable them to overcome barriers to their learning. We are committed to fair and equal access to the curriculum for all pupils, regardless of their starting points and consider any additional needs they may have. We work together to give each individual child the best possible experience of school life.

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Personalised learning ensures that we meet the needs of all children and enable them to reach their full

We are committed to developing lifelong learners who value and understand the importance of education and what it means to be educated. We have core values which we promote and instil in our children. These are:

Perseverance

Pride

Resilience

Excellence

Self-belief

Integrity

Aspiration

Respect

Effort

We are relentless in our effort to ensure every child achieves and is well equipped for the challenges they face on their learning journey. We achieve our aim by:

Giving pupils ownership of their own learning and a role in planning a curriculum which reflects their interests and questions

Giving teachers autonomy in the way they plan and teach the pupils as we believe the pupils in each class are different and so are the teachers

Developing and training our pupils to become outstanding learners: independent and resilient

Helping our pupils understand the impact of every action they take and every decision they make

Having the very highest expectations of all our pupils and ensuring they have a positive mindset towards everything they do

We aim to excel at Lucas Vale Primary School and our pupils continue to make progress in all areas of their learning.

To learn more about our school please contact us at admin@lucasvale.lewisham.sch.uk or call us on 020 86924660 to arrange a visit.

A message from our Executive Head

I am very proud to be the Executive Headteacher of the GGLV Federation. We have wonderful, eager learners who contribute greatly to the leadership of the schools.

We are all aware that we need to improve outcomes for our children at both schools. The most effective way to do this is to improve the quality of teaching for learning, this is what we are busy doing now. We are all learners, it’s important to us that we are constantly improving and learning alongside our children.

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Our curriculum mapping is also important to us. We want your children to be curious and to be hungry to learn. We can only achieve this through an exciting, relevant curriculum that allows your children to become scientists and historians. Again, this is something we are developing everyday- we must always strive to be better. Our children also need to play an important part in any curriculum development.

To help our schools develop, we work in partnership with two other schools in Lewisham- Haseltine and Fairlawn. Our leaders all share good practice and our children often compete against each other in various sporting competitions. We believe that we are stronger together.

We have a new Head of School at Lucas Vale, Mrs Cobblah, who started with us January 2019. She was previously the Head of Primary at Prendergast Vale, one of the most improved schools in the country. Please do come and meet Mrs Cobblah and Mr Gordon, the Head of School at Grinling Gibbons

If you are a prospective parent, please come on one of our fortnightly tours and see our schools in action. The Heads will show you around and introduce you to our lovely learners, they will all be keen to show you the learning in their books.

If there is something you need and you can’t find it on our website, please do call us.

Lesley Jones – Executive Head

Grinling Gibbons & Lucas Vale Federation

In our partnership we inspire all children to have a life long love of learning, allowing everyone to thrive in a rapidly changing landscape whilst celebrating the richness and diversity of the world we live in. We all believe in the power of learning.

In our Federation we always expect all children to be provided with high quality learning experiences that lead to consistently high levels of pupil achievement.

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There is a common purpose and shared responsibility amongst children, parents, staff and governors. All are actively committed to the life, growth and development of our schools. There is intellectual challenge for everyone and a culture of learning and questioning practice.

Teachers share a common understanding achieved through discussion, consideration of practice, the sharing of information and whole school planning of important issues. Teachers are reflective and self-critical. Teachers’ individuality is valued but some autonomy must be sacrificed for coherence, consistency and shared standards in school life.

The Grinling Gibbons and Lucas Vale Federation is a place for learning where:

children can achieve

learning is for life

people are respected

partnership is valued

Latest News

​In Nursery we love to mark make and draw pictures of our favourite things. One of our boys loves Sonic the Hedgehog and he has been practising his drawing skills during our COVID-19 lockdown at home. His drawings have become so much more detailed and I have been so...

Year 1 Student learning to climb a tree and measuring containers of water comparing them to 1 litre. During this week the children focused on the story “the curious garden”. This focused on building and “anywhere garden” (a garden that could be planted in anything or...

Innovative Learning Experiences

Here at Lucas Vale, learning is never limited to just taking place in the classroom. We want our children to experience learning across a variety of contexts, and in different ways, so that they fully engage with their learning at all times. This is why we try, wherever possible, to plan for and provide an enriched context to all our learning.

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This could be done through visiting museums and heritage sites, both local and across London; exploring what’s available in our local area such as Deptford Creekside; or engaging with local community-based initiatives such as The Jimmy Mizen Foundation.

We also have regular themed topics across the school so that our children learn collaboratively with children in different year groups, and wherever possible, we invite in visitors and experts who can really help to make the learning come alive, whether that’s the fire service who come to visit EYFS to support with their topic ‘People who help us’, or survivors from WW2 who escaped from Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport who come in and share their experiences with Year 6.